Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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851
"By their own hand they had face-stripped themselves," said one of the fellows.
5
852
At this moment three or four of the girls on the chain burst into tears.
5
853
This is perhaps difficult for those unfamiliar with Gor to understand, one supposes, but the matter is cultural, certainly in the high cities.
5
854
The face of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, of station, and such, is secret to herself, and to those to whom she might choose to bare it.
5
855
It is not like the face of a slave, exposed to any herdsman or peddler, any passer-by, who might choose, however casually, to look upon it.
5
856
Some of the girls, careful to retain the posture in which they had been placed, lest they be struck, wept.
5
857
They had not forgotten the moment, it seemed.
"By their own hand they had face-stripped themselves," said one of the fellows.
At this moment three or four of the girls on the chain burst into tears.
This is perhaps difficult for those unfamiliar with Gor to understand, one supposes, but the matter is cultural, certainly in the high cities.
The face of a free woman, particularly one of high caste, of station, and such, is secret to herself, and to those to whom she might choose to bare it.
It is not like the face of a slave, exposed to any herdsman or peddler, any passer-by, who might choose, however casually, to look upon it.
Some of the girls, careful to retain the posture in which they had been placed, lest they be struck, wept.
They had not forgotten the moment, it seemed.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter )